Obamacare's crushing cost to some families: 49 percent price hike since 2014

[james_1957]

James has started 6 threads in 12 years; each OP is a C&P URL.

Dude's a prolific and original thinker as far as retards go.

This one is for my new BFF Lancecastor. If you don't know who Lancecastor is, he's the Canadian transvestite affectionately known as Lace.

When Maggie Rikard first started buying Obamacare health plans in 2014, the Washington state housewife was paying a premium of about $375 per month for a plan that had a $2,500 deductible.

Three years later, Rikard's premiums have spiked to $471 per month — a 25 percent increase — and her deductible is now up to $5,000.

But that's still lower than what Rikard would have been charged if she had stayed in her prior plan, which her former insurer said would cost $600 per month in 2017.

"I literally picked the cheapest plan there was" on eHealth's online insurance brokerage platform, said Rikard.

The plan's provider network does not include doctors she prefers. But she said that if she needs to she would go to her preferred doctor and pay the extra cost, since the high deductible of her plan would require her to do so anyway for covered doctors.

"I think it's awful," the 60-year-old Rikard said of the price hikes she has experienced in recent years.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/11/thes...sidies-now-and-it-is-really-costing-them.html